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Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• about 3 years ago

Just realising from re-reading Alexander's books that one way to describe Alexander Technique is an educational process that teaches how to notice and undo psychophysical technical debt cc @meditationstuff

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9/5/2022

Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• about 3 years ago

Replying to @m_ashcroft

He states that the role of the civilising process, which was much faster and unnatural relative to the evolutionary processes that human bodyminds were adapted to, introduced what he refers to as 'defects'

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9/5/2022

Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• about 3 years ago

Replying to @m_ashcroft

This is why he and current AT teachers are generally against lots of modern physical exercise before these defects are surfaced and their cessation is brought within conscious control – it just emphasises those defects (of the psychophysical technical debt kind)

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9/5/2022

Michael Ashcroft@m_ashcroft• almost 3 years ago

Replying to @m_ashcroft

going to leave this connection here https://t.co/1lu8WCRBuO https://t.co/ziE44obmL5

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11/9/2022